The message and response are at the application layer.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Statux [mailto:statux@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:30 PM
>To: Cham, LP
>Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-net
>Subject: Re: TCP Management
>
>
>(tries to glue your words back together)
>
>Define message and response, etc. Are you talking packets? or something
>like an application level reply?
>
>On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Cham, LP wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have 2 machines that act as a client-server.
>>
>> When a connection has been established, the server
>> will keep sending msg to the client whereby the client
>> will simply process and send back the response.
>>
>> The question is, will the response be sent out to the
>> server when the server is still continuously sending
>> the request. How is this managed and by which level - the kernel?
>>
>> How long and how much can the server holds the outgoing response
>> before he has a chance to send out the response?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Cham
>>
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